Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication (University of Pennsylvania Publications in Conduct and Communication)

Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms __kinesics__), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered by skilled scrutiny of particular movements within a social context. There Was A Child Went Forth -- The Age Of A Baby -- Becoming Predictable -- Backgrounds -- There Are Smiles -- Masculinity And Femininity As Display -- Kinesic Analysis Of Filmed Behavior Of Children -- The Family And Its Open Secrets -- Talk And Motion In The Theater And At Family Meals -- Tactile Communication In A Family -- It Depends On The Point Of View -- Gestures: Signals Or Partials -- Handicaps In The Linguistic-kinesic Analogy -- Redundancy In Multi-channel Communication Systems -- Social Contexts Of Communication -- Toward Analyzing American Movement -- Movement With Speech -- Kinesic Stress In American English -- Still Photographs, Interviews, And Filming -- Body Signals -- How Much Data Do You Need? -- Sequence And Tempo -- Head Nods -- Similarities And Differences -- Body Motion Research And Interviewing -- Body Motion -- A Kinesic-linguistic Exercise: The Cigarette Scene -- Communication And Culture: A Limited Conclusion. [by] Ray L. Birdwhistell. Bibliography: P. [305]-338. Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered by skilled scrutiny of particular movements within a social context. Editor's Note Contents Introduction PART I. Learning to Be a Human Body PART II. Isolating Behavior PART III. Approaching Behavior PART IV. Collecting Data: Observing, Filming, and Interviewing PART V. Research on An Interview Appendixes